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Maria
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Maria
is our very first university- level
student. She has already passed her exams as a
qualified teacher and is now studying to become
a lawyer. She is the first of our mature students to
be married and also recently gave birth to a
baby girl.
She will be returning to her studies later
this year.
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Conal
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Conal lives
in San Mateo and is an active participant in
our classes. He lives with 9 other people in
3-rooms. They are resource poor but the family
bond is strong and the parents want them all
to study. He is currently attending school to
study Technical Drawing.
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Jessica
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Jessica
just finished her final
year of high school and she is
another on of the super -stars
in our Integral / Philosophy classes. She is
currently
attending junior college
studying to be a teacher.
After graduation this year she wants to
go on to
university to study law.
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Felipe
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Felipe
began
with our program
in 2011. With the help of
our
sponsorship program,
he is able
to study to
become an architect.
He lives with 11 other people
in
crowded conditions but that
does not
deter his playful
and sometimes mischievous
spirit.
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Isai
His
story: Isa
is one of five children in his family, one of whom is
autistic. They eat just one meal per day
normally comprised of herbs, tortillas or
beans. Isa usually gets up at 4.30am in the morning
so he can help his family in the daily tasks
before attending school. He is the first
student to arrive at the school, though he
is the one who lives farthest away.
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Juan
Carlos
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JC began
with our program in 2010. He is an astute
individual and with his direct nature
will
make a great teacher when he
graduates. After
that he tells us that
he plans to go on to a university to
study business administration. JC is also
tutoring 3 of the girls from our program on
weekends in math and science.
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Saul
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| Saul
is in his first year of junior college and he really loves our Integral / Philosophy classes.
After graduation this year he wants to study
Information Technology and we are helping to support
that dream with him.
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Conal
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Conal lives
in San Mateo and is an active participant in
our classes. He lives with 9 other people in
3-rooms. They are resource poor but the family
bond is strong and the parents want them all
to study. He is currently studying Technical
Drawing in junior college.
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Sonia
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| Sonia
is the sister of Conal to the left and she lives
with nine other people in three rooms. They are
resource poor but the family bond is strong
and the parents want them all to study. She
would like to go to college to study to be a
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Carmen
Carmen
is a sister to Byron and Maria below. She is one of 3
siblings who are living with their mom in a
corn-stalk shack with dirt floors, tin roof
and plastic to keep out the elements. Carmen
is going to school in the evenings because
the day classes are full up and we need
sponsors to help with the cost of this
support.
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Carmen
| Carmen
is
one of six siblings. She attending
school on most days and coming to our weekly CT/IED
classes. We
would like to continue to sponsor her
so that she can get the
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Angelita
Angelita
(r) lives with her mom,
her two younger sisters and
her step-father. Abuse is
rife in this one-room house. Her mom is sick and does
not work at all and the step-father sometimes works in
the market, but often he does
not get odd jobs because he is
already under the influence.
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The
3 siblings!
Three
kids ages 7, 3 and 1 whose
mother abandoned them. Their
names are Luisito, Jimena, and
Vincente.
They were living with their grandma in a 1.5 room tin-walled shack
with dirt floors. The grandma works
all day picking up wood in the
mountain while the older one
takes care of
the two little ones. These 3
began our Junior Sponsorship program!
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Mario
His
story: Mario often takes care of the youngest of his 6 brothers while his mother is working in the
mornings. He attends school in the
afternoon and loves it. He is of great help
at the house.
As of now, there is no father, he died
recently.
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Family photo here
See
video of his home
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Marta
Marta is 10 years old. She has 2 brothers and 3 sisters. They all live
together with their parents in a one room
house. Her father picks coffee beans, when in
season, for a ten hours per day every day
for which he earns $80 a month. Her
mom works washing clothes in houses she
earns $40
per month.
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Flor
Flor is 10 years old, she lives in a house in the mountain, Vista Hermosa.
She lives in one of the highest (the
higher the poorer). She has two
brothers, one of them is also a
student, Mauricio, and appears in the
pictures below.
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Blanca
Her
story: Blanca is 12 years
old and lives in the village of San Mateto. She is the oldest daughter of the family.
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Evelyn
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story: Evelyn Carina is 11 (and her sister Jacklyn to
the right) are 2 of 6 siblings who live in
San Andres, about 30 minutes from our home.
She needs braces to walk to the bus that
takes her to school, which she loves! That
cost is already sponsored our long term
volunteer Dianne
Morton.
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Jackie
Her story:
Jackie
Beatriz is 9 years old. Her mom is suffering
from depression after the death of her
brother and grandmother in the
last six months. Jackie wants to study but
is beginning to present some stress symptoms
as skin problems, lack of appetite,
attention disorders and hyper-activity.
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Family photo
See video of their home
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Maritza
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| Maritza is a happy
little 7 year old girl. S
he lives in a very poor situation. She along
with her mom and younger brother recently
moved into the house of her great
grandmother as her dad is living with
another woman who is about to have a baby.
Her mom is working making tortillas but they
often don't have enough for basic food.
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Jazmin
- 11
| Jazmin is 11 and lives
with her mom and 2 sisters and one brother
(to the right) on
a hillside village outside the town
of San Andreas. Jazmin goes to school everyday and is getting
good grades. Their mom, who is
tremendously responsible, works about 2 days
a week washing clothes and she only makes
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Wilson
- 9
Wilson is 9 and lives
with his mom and 3 sisters on
a hillside village outside the town
of San Andreas. As is quite common here, dad drinks, when he
does work he makes about $6 per day working
in the fields. Their mom, who is
tremendously responsible, works about 2 days
a week washing clothes and she only makes
about $5 per day.
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Pedrito
- 2
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lives in a house with 5 other families. Each
one of the families has one room each. In
his family there are 4 siblings and his
parents. Pedrito suffers from an illness of
the kidneys and needs constant treatment.
Because of this he is usually grumpy but
some 15 photos later we caught him with this
smile.
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Byron
- 2
Byron
is one of 3 siblings who are living with
their mom in a corn-stalk shack with dirt
floors, tin roof and plastic to keep out the
elements. They used to be helped by a now
defunct program with another organization so
their situation is rather dire at the moment.
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Christina
- 4
| Cristina
is the youngest of 3 siblings. She lives
with her mom, two siblings, grandmother and
her great ant. The father does not help the
family much and the mother works to raise
the three children earning 250 dollars per
month. She is always the one with the brightest smiles |
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Kimberly
- 7
His
story: Kimberly is 7 years
old,
she is the oldest sister of 3 siblings. She takes care of them in the school and at home.
Their mom works 7 days per week on a farm that is a long way from home and she barely earns enough for all of them.
Kimberly loves to come to the school project (where we also do Leadership
Development with the director) and where she
can be clean, fed and doesn't have to worry
about family conflicts.
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Byron
- 3
His story: Byron's
home is a
windy and cold tin shack with
a very basic kitchen on the edge
of a canyon, not very safe. These
two boys take care of Alex
while mom is working,
shopping or picking firewood.
Byron is 3 years old.
See video of their home
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Jasmine
- 3
This one is so cute we
took more than just one photo.
Jasmine lives in a shack of tin
roofs and walls, and dirt floors
high on the mountain slum that
abuts the school. Her sister
(Angelita)
is sponsored and
she has 2 other siblings.
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Gudiel
- 8
His
story: Gudiel
(pron. Gu.d.el)
Gudiel is 8
years old, he is the only
boy of four siblings. Gudiel helps
his mother picking up wood in the
mountain to sell it at the market
and bring some money home. He
is also involved at the school
where he helps with
cleaning
bathrooms, fixing doors,
bringing the trash out and
whatever is needed.
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Grecia
- 6
Grecia is a sibling
of Keller to the right. Their
mom is 50, and
spends most of her
time picking
firewood in the mountains so
the kids are left alone most of
the day and the older ones can't go to school.
There is no dad in the picture. The family also grows peas
and earns about $90 per month
when in season. There is
no bathroom on the compound.
See video of her home
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Keller
- 8
Keller lives on
a compound of 4 rooms and
a variety of farm animals
along with at least 15 other
people. 3 of the other kids
living
here, we have already
found sponsors for. The good news
is that they have a stove in the house, which was
donated by a local
church.
See video of their home
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Maria
Emiliana - 5
Her
story: Maria Emiliana is a happy little 5 year
old and whatever you say to her, she replies
with a huge smile. She loves having people
around who talk and pay attention to her.
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video of her home |
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Elizabeth
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10
Her
story: Reina Elizabeth is 10 years old and takes care of
her little brother when her mom has to work
in the local agricultural cooperative, where
she earns about $30 per month. She
would love to be a teacher, if she can
study.
See
video of her
home
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Keyla
- 10
Her
story: She is also known
as the 'mighty mouse', self
-confident and outspoken.
Her parents take care of the
water tanks for this part of the
town and she and several
generations
lives under trees
in makeshift
shacks.
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Zaida
- 7
We recently installed one of our
donated a
solar unit to her family,
because they had no light
in their
home. Zaida is one of 3 siblings
we have sponsored and benefiting
from our programs.
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Othelia
- 3
Othelia
is 3 years old (almost 4!) and she is the sister of Jasmine (seen on
the right in this photo) and also the sister
of Angelita. Both of her sisters also have
sponsors now. The goal is to keep the older
one is school and as these two grow up also
convince the mom of the great values of
education.
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Davide
- 8
His story: Davide is a happy-go-
lucky boy who lives with his
two siblings
(to the right). Their
mom is 27, and she works an
evening shift
for about $30 per
month.
Daniel is 8 years old.
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Fatima
- 3
His
story: Fatima is the
youngest of these three siblings, and she
is 3. She likes to play and to be with her
brother and sister. She loves to come to the
kindergarten at the school project (where we also do Leadership
Development with the director) and where she
can be clean, fed and doesn't have to worry
about family conflicts.
See
siblings here
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Jose
- 3
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story: Jose is the youngest of his 3
siblings. Their mom works part-time for us here at
the house. Jose and his family live in a
1.5 room tins shack that is
clinging to the edge of a rocky
mountain side, up the mountain
slum of Vista Hermosa. Jose is 3 years old.
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Maribel
- 3
Her story: Maribel is a sister to
Carmen (above). Their mom
works really hard to try to
support the family of 6
including the dad who
is an alcoholic.
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Kevin
- 3
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is the funniest one!!! He is the only child.
His parents work all week for the minimum
salary which is about $200 per month. They
live in a dark, old two roomed home with the
grandmother who is sick and needs constant
medication.
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Jessica
- 5
| Jessica is a sister of Pedrito.
For more about her situation see the
description of her brother.
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Sandy
- 5
Her
story: Sandy is 5 years
old and
very lively. She lives in a very poor
situation and needs help. Her mom
cannot afford to
buy her a uniform
and shoes to go to the school. She
lives with her other three siblings
and her mom who earns 600
quetzals (about 70 USD) per month.
Their mom is on the
edge of crisis
as she finds herself powerless to
support her family.
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